The boss of a Maori trust which provided residential care for intellectually disabled people at a Whangarei property says it had nothing to do with the home being a P house.
Tania Thomas, chief executive of Te Roopu Taurimu o Manukau Trust, said the trust had provided residential group care at the Newton Rd, Maungatapere, house for about two years but had left "a long time ago".
She was unable to give dates as she did not have that information at hand, she said.
Two weeks ago the house, along with six or seven other Housing NZ-owned houses in Northland, underwent extensive decontamination after testing positive for the drug methamphetamine, also called P.
Ms Thomas said the trust had sublet the rural property from Housing NZ but, to her knowledge, there were other tenants there later.